The finer point to this is that in development you may be logged in as
user x and have a shared hdfs instance that a number of people are
using. In that mode its not practical to sudo as you have all your
development tools setup for userx. hdfs is setup with a single user,
what is the procedure to add users to that hdfs instance? It has to
support it surely? Its really not obvious, looking in the hdfs docs
that come with the distro nothing springs out. the hadoop command
line tool doesnt have anything that vaguely looks like a way to create
a user.
Help is greatly appreciated. I am sure its somewhere so blindingly
obvious.
How are other people doing other that sudoing to one single user name?
Thanks
ChRiS
On Jun 11, 2008, at 5:11 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The best way is to use sudo command to execute hadoop client. Does
it work for you?
Nicholas
----- Original Message ----
From: Bob Remeika <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, June 11, 2008 12:56:14 PM
Subject: client connect as different username?
Apologies if this is an RTM response, but I looked and wasn't able
to find
anything concrete. Is it possible to connect to HDFS via the HDFS
client
under a different username than I am currently logged in as?
Here is our situation, I am user bobr on the client machine. I
need to add
something to the HDFS cluster as the user "companyuser". Is this
possible
with the current set of APIs or do I have to upload and "chown"?
Thanks,
Bob
